Alice Quinn, the poetry editor of The New Yorker, would like to extend her laudable goal of encouraging the memorization of poetry to include "groups -- soldiers, for example -- that often stand outside the world of letters" ("Poetry as Armor Against Highs and Lows of Life," Public Lives column, May 18).
That tradition has faded because of changes in conservatory training leading toward a system that encourages rote study and memorization of large segments of the mainstream pianistic repertory.
The Core encourages teachers to move away from memorization and to ask students to show their work.
Greater inferior frontal gyrus activation has been shown in explicit paradigms in which memorization is encouraged (Dove et al., 2006).
With all of our problems, the U.S. education system, and most importantly, our education culture, promotes new ideas, encourages competition, and rewards originality -- concepts that are outside of the traditional Chinese focus on rote memorization and quantifiable skill sets.
In this study, group differences were only explored within a limited inferior frontal gyrus region of interest and an implicit encoding task in which memorization was not encouraged was performed (Maccotta et al., 2007).
Some take you through the process in a way that emphasizes memorization while others encourage participation.
Teaching people memorization strategies that can encourage the brain to work more effectively may help reduce the memory loss that often accompanies aging, researchers say.
For more than a decade, students as young as kindergartners have been encouraged to use calculators rather than computation; memorization, even of multiplication tables, has been spurned, and children have been given credit for arriving at reasonable rather than accurate answers, the implication being that there is no one right way of doing math.
This tool is devised to encourage deductive reasoning and critical thinking instead of passive memorization of the material.
